Fox--Josef W. [Philosophy and Humanities Faculty]
Displaying 101 - 200 of 411
| # | Title | Date | Summary |
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| 101 | University: martyr of reason? Northern Iowan 65:8, p.2 |
Argues against recent proposal to arm campus police. | |
| 102 | Faculty challenge 'demure' Northern Iowan 65:6, p.2 |
Faculty challenge to university authority has been milder than student challenge, but is increasing. | |
| 103 | Student discontent mounting Northern Iowan 65:4, p.2 |
Examines student challenges to administrative and faculty authority. | |
| 104 | Challenges to authority Northern Iowan 65:2, p.2 |
Examines apparent challenges to many forms of authority. | |
| 105 | Real causes of student unrest Northern Iowan 64:57, p.2 |
Believes that most campus disturbance is a result of young people seeking knowledge; offers measures to forestall revolt. | |
| 106 | 'University plays junior G-man' Northern Iowan 64:53, p.2 |
Critical of recent arrest of draft resister. | |
| 107 | Fox to remain silent Northern Iowan 64:53, p.2 |
Professor Fox continues to defend general education in the face of those who support the Bachelor of Technology. | |
| 108 | On UNI's unprofessional profs Northern Iowan 64:51, p.2 |
Professor Fox believes that administrative power and authority lead to unprofessional faculty; he finds the lack of authority to select textbooks particularly odious. | |
| 109 | 'University cannot ignore the immorality enshrined in law' Northern Iowan 64:49, p.2 |
Believes that things which are legal may not always be moral. | |
| 110 | Should honor authentic hero Northern Iowan 64:47, p.2 |
Believes Dr. King was great American hero. | |
| 111 | Schizophrenic university Northern Iowan 64:46, p.3 |
Believes that there is inconsistency in the university's attitude toward Dr. King's death and the attempt by CADRE to interview on campus. | |
| 112 | 'CADRE rejection aids publicity' Northern Iowan 64:45, p.2 |
Believes university should have allowed draft resistance group to talk with students on campus. | |
| 113 | 'Time to halt faculty sacrifice' Northern Iowan 64:43, p.2 |
Professor Fox believes that progress at UNI has been bought with sacrifices in faculty comfort and welfare; dislikes notion of Saturday classes. | |
| 114 | 'Slim chance to stop axe' Northern Iowan 64:41, p.2 |
Professor Fox pessimistic that Bachelor of Technology, with its limited general education, can be stopped. | |
| 115 | Teachers' Union for corn state? Northern Iowan 64:39, p.2 |
Professor Fox believes that the time has come for teachers to organize. | |
| 116 | Urges suspension, pending revision Northern Iowan 64:37, p.2 |
Professor Fox outlines his position on the policy on demonstrations; finds problems with presumptions. | |
| 117 | Cites this week's 'great leap forward' Northern Iowan 64:36, p.2 |
Professor Fox dislikes UNI's actions toward Physical Plant union. | |
| 118 | 'So much for general ed.' Northern Iowan 64:35, p.2 |
Professor Fox protests recent approval of Bachelor of Technology with its abbreviated general education component. | |
| 119 | Forced to write on Viet Nam; Obiter Scripta Northern Iowan 64:33, p.2 |
Professor believes that the United States should get out of Viet Nam. | |
| 120 | 'B.T. degree for trade-school;' Obiter Scripta Northern Iowan 64:31, p.2 |
Professor Fox believes that the proposed Bachelor of Technology, with its abbreviated General Education requirement, is inappropriate for a university. | |
| 121 | Punishment does not fit crime Northern Iowan 64:29, p.2 |
Professor Fox believes students who were suspended for stealing examinations should be compelled to spend more time in college, not less. | |
| 122 | Now is the time for faculty spadework College Eye 63:62, p.2 |
Would like an improvement in the graduate level courses. | |
| 123 | Would have Eye be newspaper-journal? College Eye 63:61, p.2 |
Details reasons why the College Eye should remain a newspaper. | |
| 124 | Open forum can be powerful check College Eye 63:60, p.2 |
Feels letters to the editors are an important part of a newspaper. | |
| 125 | Fox would give editor much freedom College Eye 63:59, p.2 |
Feels the student newspaper editor should be the final authority over the paper except for three specific cases. | |
| 126 | Fox: Students would be the real losers College Eye 63:58, p.2 |
Feels the College Eye should develop itself into a "college community" based newspaper. | |
| 127 | Fox resigns in protest College Eye 63:46, p.3 |
The professor officially ends his column writing until the current editorial policy problems can be rectified. | |
| 128 | Platform planks in elections 'absurd' College Eye 63:44, p.2 |
Considers the current student government to be a pathetic, powerless waste. | |
| 129 | Fox one of world's worst writers? College Eye 63:43, p.2 |
Claims astonishment at the misinterpretation of a previous column. | |
| 130 | Issue of academic freedom out in open College Eye 63:41, p.2 |
Advocates a more solid organization of the faculty. | |
| 131 | Explains further the need of academic freedom College Eye 63:39, p.2 |
Contends that faculty should be allowed total freedom in order to make real discoveries about the world. | |
| 132 | Would it were so College Eye 63:39, p.2 |
Reacts to a previous letter which claimed that the faculty was the 'institution' of the university. | |
| 133 | Professors need freedom and responsibility College Eye 63:35, p.2 |
Chides the editor for attempting to censor the actions of the faculty. | |
| 134 | Fine art determined by 'unpractical' functions College Eye 63:33, p.2 |
Attempts to explain controversy over the price of artistic works. | |
| 135 | Doubts it College Eye 63:32, p.2 |
Questions Mr. Behrens' recitation prowess. | |
| 136 | 'What gives with the Regents?' College Eye 63:31, p.2 |
Defends the use of comprehensive undergraduate degree exams. | |
| 137 | Fox supports comprehensive exams College Eye 63:29, p.3 |
Believes that the exams perform a meaningful educational function. | |
| 138 | Three arguments on teacher strikes College Eye 63:28, p.2 |
Defends the right of teachers to strike. | |
| 139 | Eye should become journal College Eye 63:26, p.2 |
Proposes establishing a more legitimate journal of open discussion on campus. | |
| 140 | Faculty evaluation promises instant dope College Eye 63:25, p.2 |
Discusses the possible value of student evaluations of professors. | |
| 141 | Large classes can be well taught College Eye 63:21, p.2 |
Professor Fox outlines procedures for making large classes a good educational experience. | |
| 142 | Fox replies to Wilson College Eye 63:20, p.2 |
Responds to a previous letter by Leland Wilson on the strength of the faculty. | |
| 143 | Ready for university status in ten years College Eye 63:19, p.2 |
One concern Josef Fox has is the proposed increased use of graduate assistants. | |
| 144 | Freedom has nurtured finest thought College Eye 63:17, p.2 |
Comments on the possible censorship of the College Eye by the administration. | |
| 145 | Eye editor ought to maintain campus focus College Eye 63:15, p.2 |
Suggests topics for SCI editorials. | |
| 146 | Standard work unit no longer standard College Eye 63:13, p.3 |
Believes that the Faculty Senate should be in charge of keeping the workload of professors and instructors from getting too big. | |
| 147 | School has great need for sharp criticism College Eye 63:11, p.2 |
Voices opinions about SCI's change from a college to a university. | |
| 148 | Central Information Office is needed College Eye 63:9, p.2 |
Discusses reasons for the communication gap between the college administration and faculty and the students. | |
| 149 | Dr. Fox feels like weeping College Eye 63:8, p.2 |
Expresses unhappiness at the plan to change SCI from a college to a university. | |
| 150 | College Eye should have censor College Eye 63:7, p.2 |
Believes that President Maucker is responsible for censoring the College Eye. | |
| 151 | Demonstration helps restore waning faith College Eye 63:5, p.2 |
Comments on a recent student demonstration. | |
| 152 | Refusal to learn is baffling attitude College Eye 63:3, p.2 |
Discusses the importance of learning. | |
| 153 | Freshmen responsible for education College Eye 63:1, p.2 |
Gives advice to incoming freshman. | |
| 154 | I ought to look at Dr. Fox's 'Experiment' College Eye 60:55, p.2 |
Advocates more efficient use of professors' time. | |
| 155 | Does skyscraper dorm represent educational wisdom College Eye 60:51, p.2 |
Questions the legitimate need for building a 'skyscraper' dormitory. | |
| 156 | If painting is bad burning is quite proper College Eye 60:49, p.2 |
Declares that not all 'art' is worthy of display. | |
| 157 | Obiter Scripta: Are unlikenesses in portrait intelligently conceived? College Eye 60:47, p.2 |
Discusses Lechay's painting and whether or not the unlikenesses to President Maucker represent something. | |
| 158 | Fox: Book owner has right to burn it College Eye 60:45, p.2 |
Josef Fox explains to Ralph Haskell that he suggested that students and faculty purchase the painting before burning it; Josef Fox remarks that whether it is a book or a work of art, if you own it, you may burn it. | |
| 159 | Obiter Scripta: Portrait is representative of human being College Eye 60:45, p.2 |
Gives his own definition of what a portrait should be. | |
| 160 | Dr. Fox has burning idea College Eye 60:42, p.3 |
Suggests that students and faculty should make donations to buy the painting of President Maucker and burn it. | |
| 161 | Obiter Scripta: Only 'phony' university seen for SCI before 1975 College Eye 60:42, p.2 |
Suggests that efforts to change SCI to university status are too early. | |
| 162 | Obiter Scripta: Unclear debate hinders understanding of foreign policy College Eye 60:38, p.2 |
Discusses United States policy on "containment" concerning the war in Viet Nam. | |
| 163 | Obiter Scripta: Must recognize large class problem, end drift policy College Eye 60:36, p.2 |
Suggests that the solution to the problem large classes and overcrowding is not to rant and rave about it, but to think about how large classes should be handled better. | |
| 164 | Obiter Scripta: new scholarship program unwise, sneaked by faculty College Eye 60:34, p.2 |
Discusses the new scholarships that are to be based on academic achievement and not necessity. | |
| 165 | Obiter Scripta: Intensive discussion needed on large class problems College Eye 60:30, p.3 |
Insists that a "Great Conversation" must take place on the matter of class sizes. | |
| 166 | Obiter Scripta: Course-program relationships make college vocational College Eye 60:29, p.2 |
Clarifies what he meant in a previous column, by "liberal arts program." | |
| 167 | Obiter Scripta: Relationship of taught, learned material still mystery College Eye 60:27, p.2 |
Describes teaching as a hazard or an adventure. | |
| 168 | Obiter Scripta: Is liberal arts college vocational school in disguise? College Eye 60:25, p.2 |
Claims that students see liberal arts as just another vocational training program instead of a way to develop and liberate the human spirit. | |
| 169 | Obiter Scripta: Informal contacts good, but must be kept subordinate College Eye 60:23, p.2 |
States that he and President Maucker have different views on where to put the new Union because they have different goals in mind. | |
| 170 | Obiter Scripta: 'Bad-apple' socializing will hamper educational process College Eye 60:18, p.2 |
Believes that placing the new Union in the center of the main classroom quadrangle will not help the educational process. | |
| 171 | Obiter Scripta: Union placement will not integrate academic social life College Eye 60:16, p.2 |
Discusses President Maucker's decision to place the new Union in the center of the main classroom quadrangle. | |
| 172 | Obiter Scripta: 'Great conversation' needed to consider campus planning College Eye 60:14, p.2 |
Claims that campus planning is too important of a matter to leave solely to the campus planners. | |
| 173 | Obiter Scripta: Unconvinced placard wavers weaken national morale College Eye 60:12, p.2 |
Supports demonstrations but insists that they must be responsible in order to have any value. | |
| 174 | Obiter Scripta: Hair cut edicts not fair, none of schools' business College Eye 60:10, p.2 |
Claims that people are willing to sacrifice freedom for their own prejudices. | |
| 175 | Obiter Scripta: Arthur Miller refusal conscience-dictated but irrational College Eye 60:8, p.2 |
Discusses Arthur Miller's declining of the President's invitation to attend the official signing of the arts and humanities bill. | |
| 176 | Obiter Scripta: Beauty for parking convenience: thoroughly bad swap College Eye 60:6, p.2 |
Disagrees with destroying what is left of the university's green spots to build tiny parking lots. | |
| 177 | Obiter Scripta: Going to college, getting education not the same thing College Eye 60:2, p.2 |
Claims that students are using college as a kind of resort for social purposes, instead of for education purposes. | |
| 178 | Fox upset about fast moving scientific development College Eye 59:39, p.2 |
Disrupts his humanistic views/truths and fears he will soon be preaching what will then be only superstitions. | |
| 179 | Present proposals won't solve drop out problem College Eye 59:37, p.2 |
High school drop-out has mentally dropped out for years before high school. | |
| 180 | Congress interested in more than science, big business College Eye 59:35, p.2 |
National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities may be created to parallel the National Science Foundation. | |
| 181 | Writers need practice, must know grammar, rhetoric College Eye 59:33, p.2 |
Composition courses are ineffective; must be re-vamped. | |
| 182 | Fox: new unrest includes constructive demonstrations College Eye 59:30, p.2 |
Fox applauds student groups across America for their awareness of national issues. | |
| 183 | Fox maintains students need more theme writing College Eye 59:28, p.2 |
Current practice of ten 400-word themes is not enough to develop students' writing skills. | |
| 184 | Presents proposal for greater educational efficiency College Eye 59:26, p.2 |
Greatest resource is in intelligence and energy of student body; professors should stop assuming that the only place for a student to learn is under teacher direction. | |
| 185 | SCI losing ground as state financial support lags College Eye 59:24, p.2 |
State funds have been decreasing for last ten years; cuts into new classroom and new faculty plans. | |
| 186 | Iowa presidents construing their jobs too narrowly College Eye 59:22, p.2 |
Presidents of the state's universities should work with each other to improve facilities and faculty. | |
| 187 | Fox strongly opposes giving vote to 18-year-old College Eye 59:20, p.2 |
Group of 18 to 21-year-olds, as a whole, is not informed or wise in areas of politics. | |
| 188 | Voluntary pledge of honor fails to work among cadets College Eye 59:17, p.2 |
Cheating in the Air Force Academy comes as a shock. | |
| 189 | 'Filthy' book causes academic freedom controversy College Eye 59:16, p.2 |
Baldwin's 'Another Country' has academic merit. | |
| 190 | Student cannot find individuality in today's colleges College Eye 59:15, p.2 |
States do not have enough money to allow college to cater to student individualities; colleges are not the only institutions suppressing individualities today. | |
| 191 | Sees growing dissatisfaction with current curriculum College Eye 59:13, p.2 |
Courses should instill morals, prepare students for specific career. | |
| 192 | Young instructors often choose too difficult material College Eye 59:11, p.2 |
Less-experienced teachers try to challenge students, end up wasting their time. | |
| 193 | Lessen non-professional tasks, attract better faculty College Eye 59:9, p.2 |
Pay faculty to do their job; hire clerks or student assistants for filing, fetching, carrying. | |
| 194 | Faculty again busy with non-instructional matters College Eye 59:7, p.2 |
Examination of Greek housing and deliberation of 'lights out' policy fall outside of faculty's obligations to school. | |
| 195 | Fox still contends individuals cannot alter history College Eye 59:5, p.2 |
Reiterates, in response to Wiesenfeld's article, that just one person cannot produce, change, or eliminate development of US. | |
| 196 | Fox feels he's less passionate in partisan disputes College Eye 59:3, p.2 |
Fox describes his lack of interest in presidential race. | |
| 197 | Obiter Scripta: many, many steps to Negro freedom and equality College Eye 58:29, p.2 |
Informs readers that the road to equal rights for African-Americans will be long and hard; the process does not take place overnight. | |
| 198 | Obiter Scripta: Fox says recent interest in sex not a revolution College Eye 58:27, p.2 |
Claims that the media are overreacting about the morality issue; it's not anything new. | |
| 199 | Obiter Scripta: Fox sees institute as significant in education scene College Eye 58:25, p.2 |
Claims that technical institutes are a necessity; technology is advancing too quickly to find workers who are educated in technology. | |
| 200 | Obiter Scripta: suggests 'Third Law' rather than 'gimmick' for study College Eye 58:23, p.2 |
Suggests that students would like a 'magic formula' that would enable them to pass tests without studying. |